My rating here is for the graphic novel as an adapation, rather than for the story itself. I should probably stop reading comic adaptions of Neil Gaiman's books, because they never seem to really sing.

Part of it is how this is a very straight adaptation - I would have preferred it to have relied less on the boxes of text narrative, which seem to generally be taken straight from the book. The comic doesn't do anything other than what the book does, which I find disappointing in an adaptation. I'd rather have the prose, where I can imagine the world myself, than see it illustrated, as the illustrations let me down. Coraline looking older than she should is something that kept drawing me out.

I certainly didn't find the comic more atmospheric, or creepier, which I think is something the illustrations should have done. But maybe that's just me. Considering I never found Coraline half as creepy as the reviews said I should in the first place.

On its own merits, it's a decent graphic novel. But I'll stick with the book, myself.